suspicious - Story 145405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You take the east wing, I’ll take the west,” Thomas stated, his voice brisk. His sister, Clara, felt her hands clench. He'd never been so decisive before. It felt as if he had a secret agenda.

She looked around the house, taking in the dust-covered furniture and the faded portraits. A sharp pain blossomed behind her eyes. She wanted to leave. Why was he so keen to divide the space so quickly? What was he hiding?

He started to go off, and then stopped. "I think you should start looking through the documents. There is a lot to go through." His voice was too calm. It was unsettling.

Emotion: suspicious

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.82 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.82

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion suspicious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 suspicious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the suspicious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the suspicious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤔`	0.420
`🤔`	0.415
`🧐`	0.362
`疑`	0.352
`suspicious`	0.352

Suppressed:

`and`	-0.307
`alleviate`	-0.301
`ได้รับการ`	-0.298
`allevi`	-0.285
`mouthful`	-0.284